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What does increasing regulatory oversight mean for the pharma supply chain?

The Network Effect

Within a decade, the number of FDA warning letters sent to medical device manufacturers has increased threefold, from 61 letters in 2002 to 181 in 2012 (EC A 2012). China published new GMP guidelines in 2012 and called on pharmaceutical companies to pursue GMP certification by the end of 2013.

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Fisher’s Supply Chain–Product Match/Mismatch Framework

SCM Research

2012) demonstrate that “the higher the supply chain fit, the higher the Return on Assets (ROA) of the firm” Interestingly, a majority of the firms from their sample achieve a negative misfit, i.e. they target high responsiveness for their supply chain although their products are functional.

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Clouds: A Beautiful Thing for Sure!

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2002, there was no interest. Figure 1 came from the 2012 study. (We E2open went public in July 2012 and in February 2015 participated in a private buy-out for $273M by Insight Venture Partners. As a result, Steelwedge looks very different today than when I first met them in 2002. The reason?

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The agile supply chain is back in trend. But this time it’s for real!

Supply Chain Trend

In 2012 I wrote a short blog about demand driven & agile supply chains , which seems to be all the hype back then. Lee’s matrix from his 2002 article “Aligning Supply Chain Strategies with Product Uncertainties”, provides a good starting point for a segmentation conversation.

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6 Manufacturing Trends You Need to Know

Arena Solutions

Since the start of 2012, more people graduating from college and universities are entering the engineering/manufacturing fields. alone, colleges and universities awarded 83,263 bachelor’s degrees in engineering in 2012, a 37% increase over the 60,605 degrees conferred in 2002. Breaking it down In the U.S.

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Inflation is Back Up – Are you Ready?

Herlitz Inventory Management

Tech bubble burst. Bush tax cut, 9/11 attacks. War on Terror. Katrina, Bankruptcy Act. Bernanke became Fed Chair. Bank crisis. Financial crisis. ACA, Dodd-Frank Act. Debt ceiling crisis. Government shutdown.

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7 Supply Chain Cost Saving Ideas from SpaceX

Supply Chain Opz

In June 2002, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation or SpaceX was established with the goal to make the space launch service way cheaper. And on 25 May 2012, they made a very remarkable achievement by being the first privately-fund company who could send cargo from the earth to the International Space Station.